A Serious Widow

Authors: Beresford-Howe, Constance
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
BISAC/Subject: FIC000000, FIC044000, FIC016000, FIC045000
ISBN: 9781551997056, Related ISBNs: 0771011059, 1551997053, 9780771011054, 9781551997056
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 224,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: At the age of 50, newly widowed Rowena Hill feels only relief to be free of her penny-pinching fusspot of a husband. As she makes her stumbling efforts to become fulfilled as a woman and a wage-earner, well-intentioned friends and her overbearing daughter all make plans for her future, with results that are sometimes comical, sometimes disastrous. However, Rowena’s growing taste for independence leads her to a solution to her problems that no one could have predicted and which astonishes even herself. First published in 1991, A Serious Widow collected glowing reviews.
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